Friday, May 20th, 2005
While email authentication is no longer such hot topic as it was last year, nevertheless the two main proposals (SPF and Sender-ID) are moving slowly through the IETF process to become experimental protocols. Both just published new drafts (spf and sender-id [1], [2] and [3]). At the same time it ...
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Thursday, April 7th, 2005
The IESG finally approved my Internet draft on the CSV MIME type and send it over to the RFC Editor for publication.
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Sunday, April 3rd, 2005
In response to the comments from the IESG, I put up a new version of the MIME CSV draft (list of changes here).
Full repository including all the old versions is here.
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Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005
As the last call period winds down to a close, I put up a new version of the MIME CSV draft (list of changes here).
Full repository including all the old versions is here.
UPDATE: My draft is up for review at the IESG teleconference on Thursday. I am getting jittery already.
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Thursday, February 17th, 2005
I just submitted the -01 version of my CSV MIME Type draft (full repository, HTML and TXT). HTML list of differences between the -00 and -01 drafts is here and my earlier post is here. Comments should go to either the IETF-TYPES mailing list or to me directly at ietf ...
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Friday, February 11th, 2005
Following up on my earlier post about the use of email blacklists for blogs and Andy's comments, Andy and myself started thinking about how to improve blacklists and whitelists for blogs. What we came up with is "Distributed xLists" - in black, white and shades of gray. Instead of following ...
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Wednesday, February 2nd, 2005
Recently while working with comma separated value (CSV) files, I came across an interesting fact that there is no registered MIME type for this format while there is one for tabbed separated. To correct that, I whipped up an Internet draft (see directory for other file types).
UPDATE: The draft just ...
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Monday, January 31st, 2005
Marshall Rose and Andy Newton, former co-chairs of MARID WG, have put up a podcast about why MARID collapsed (via GrumpsOps).
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Friday, January 28th, 2005
The IETF just published a security review of MASS proposals, specifically DomainKeys and IIM (hat tip to Andrew Newton, former co-chair of MARID WG). Two main security concerns highlighted are replay attacks and DOS attacks, both of each have been mentioned in the ASRG some time ago. As for replay ...
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Sunday, January 16th, 2005
(This article was published by Circle-ID)
DISCLAIMER: I do not have any inside knowledge regarding this nor have I discussed this with any IETF folks. This is based purely on publically available information.
A few months ago, Ted Hardie (AD of Applications for the IETF) informed the MARID WG in the closure ...
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